I once had to fix a system that was dual boot NT and Solaris x86 after Solaris wrapped around and put log messages into the boot sector. I fixed it by typing in

I once had to fix a system that was dual boot NT and Solaris x86 after Solaris wrapped around and put log messages into the boot sector. I fixed it by typing in the boot code for NT from a screenshot of a hexdump in the NT resource kit using a sector editor. Then it was just a matter of finding the partition start offsets and making a partition table then the machine was fine.